02:33 - VIGJust sayin' I remember nikarg's Sodom review on the front page, that album was like 30 years old

02:27 - ScreamingSteelUSTechnically, Che's Manunkind review was too old to be featured on the front page. That was a special exception; usually, we prefer to keep our reviews within three-to-four months, with six months as an absolute cutoff.

02:14 - VIG@Radu Of course! I don't think it's too old to be featured on the front page. Look at Che's Manunkind review

00:09 - RaduPPublished a review for an album that's a bit too old to be featured on the front page, but you guys will read it, right? [link]

Incongruous...The only thing really all that incongruous about Incongruous is the album title itself. Frankly, this album sits in a happy safe place of incredibly predictable technical death metal.

Let it be clear; this band is very talented. They've got the incredible chops, a good ear for that frantic, jagged brutality, and all the other basics you need for a good brutal tech-death band. What does it all add up to? Not a whole lot. Sure, there is a few pretty unique riffs scattered throughout Incongruous, but not nearly enough to make it worth sitting through the entirety. This is Beneath The Massacre's 3rd album, you'd think perhaps by now they'd be open to performing a few curve-balls here and there. Think it's impossible to record a brutal album that's still unique, without having to compromise the music? Think again; Avicularia did it, with their debut no less. It's been proven possible, yet only a select few try it.

This is just basic. It charges in all the right places, has all the *meedley-meedley* bits in the right place. Everything is right where you'd expect to find it. Everything is pristine, well timed and perfectly executed. It's flawless in a sense; if someone said "show me death metal", and you wanted to show them some generic stuff to give them an appropriate image of what death metal is, then yeah, you could say this is flawless. Unfortunately, there is no sense of menace in predictability, and Incongruous epitomizes predictability. How good can a death metal album be without a bit of menace?

I found that all of their albums were like this. it may be because tech is my least favorite of the brutal genre, but these guys are some of the masters of 'predictable and flavourless.' and i've even been listening to them since their debut. 'Sleepless'n still manages to entertain me however.